1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Zhou Yan did not tell Li Xuhai that Jinhong Electronics was their family's property, but it didn't matter, as long as Li Xuhai knew that Jinhong Electronics was related to him and that the leasing relationship between them would not affect Jinhong Electronics' acquisition of them.

Basically no other company can offer the conditions offered by Jinhong Electronics. Because Jinhong Electronics is in a period of rapid development, it can absorb so many workers.

Originally, Li Xuhai was worried that Zhou Yan's studio would affect the acquisition, but now that this biggest problem has been solved, there will be no other problems.

Now he can basically wait for the acquisition with peace of mind.

Halfway through the meal, Li Xiuhai couldn't help but ask, "After Jinhong Electronics acquires our factory, will they still rent the three buildings to you?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Jinhong Electronics won't want this place of yours."

"You won't want our place... You mean -"

Li Xuhai thought of a possibility and his eyes widened.

Could it be that this acquisition was mainly to make room for Zhou Yan's studio?
Li Xuhai was secretly shocked. What kind of background did Zhou Yan have to make him so successful in Yanjing?

Looking at Li Xuhai with wide eyes, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Maybe when you come back again in a while, the factory will look very different."

"I'm afraid it will take a long time for me to come here next time. If the acquisition goes smoothly, I will go to Huai Mine to work after the personnel migration is completed."

"So fast?" Zhou Yan asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Li Xiuhai nodded. "Originally this matter was quite urgent. If the situation at the factory hadn't been so bad, I would have left long ago. But now it's good. The factory has been acquired, so I can leave in a more decent way."

For Li Xiuhai, the acquisition of the factory may be considered a political achievement.

After all, compared with other factories, their electronics factory can be said to have been perfectly implemented. Now, if the factory remains in operation for one more day, it will suffer losses for one more day.

After dinner, Li Xuhai left. It was obvious that he was in a good mood.

……

The electronics factory was in a hurry to get rid of the product, and Jinhong Electronics did not drag its feet at all.

In less than two weeks, the acquisition was finalized.

On the morning of November 22nd, Zhou Yan just arrived at the door of the studio and saw Jiang Mengfei and Liu Qing standing next to Building No. 3 and looking towards the south gate.

"Brother Qing, Mengfei, what are you looking at?" Zhou Yan asked.

Jiang Mengfei pointed towards the south gate and said, "I don't know what happened, but early this morning, the equipment in the factory was shipped out one truck after another."

"The factory was acquired, and the equipment and workers had to be moved away."

"Acquired? Such big news, but I didn't hear any rumors at all." Jiang Mengfei asked curiously.

"You don't deal with them every day, how did you hear the news?"

"What about this factory? Will anyone else move in?" Liu Qing asked.

Zhou Yan shook his head. "No more. From now on, we will be the only ones in this factory."

"Just us? So all this land is just sitting here and wasting? I thought there was some plan."

"Of course there is a plan." Zhou Yan pointed to the vacant lot in front, "I plan to tidy up that place and build a basketball court. The previous basketball court was too dilapidated and the location was not very good."

"It would be nice to build a basketball court, but there won't be any problems with this, right?"

Zhou Yan pointed to the building in the southwest and said, "This building needs to be demolished first. I plan to build a living building there. The cafeteria, convenience store and temporary dormitory will all be placed in that building."

As Zhou Yan's words became more and more outrageous, Jiang Mengfei curled his lips and said, "Old Zhou, look at what you said, it's like you acquired an electronics factory."

Zhou Yan didn't answer, but just looked at him with a smile.

Liu Qing was the first to react, "Could it be that we really acquired the electronics factory?"

"Yes and no."

Jiang Mengfei asked anxiously, "Is it true or not? Don't play dumb."

"My second brother bought the electronics factory, but they only wanted people and equipment, so they left this place to us."

Jiang Mengfei couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "Our second brother is awesome!"

Liu Qing licked his lips and said, "It's such a big place, can we use it all?"

"Don't worry, Brother Qing, it will definitely be used up. Maybe it won't be enough in the future."

not enough……

The area of ​​the electronics factory is actually not that large, after all, it is close to the Third Ring Road.

But it is also more than 300 acres, which is too large for their studio.

They now have only a few dozen employees in their two studios, excluding the orchestra, and the two existing buildings have not yet been fully utilized.

The Yanjing Film Studio, not far from them, only has less than 400 acres of land.

As for the Yanjing Film Studio, most of its area is used for the film and television base in the back, while the office building and editing building in the front occupy very little space.

It's impossible for their studio to set up a film and television base like the Yanjing Film Studio.

In Liu Qing's opinion, there is no need for this at all. It is really not cost-effective to set up a film and television base by oneself.

Seeing Liu Qing's face full of disbelief, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "This is all for the future. It's still early. Let's set up the TV drama department first."

Jiang Mengfei rubbed his hands and said, "Will our TV drama department be able to occupy a building on its own in the future?"

"If the development is good, a building is definitely necessary."

According to Zhou Yan's plan, the TV drama department, film department, and music department should all be located in different buildings. In addition, Zhou Yan also plans to build a new media department in a few years.

The entire park will be built into a media integration center.

“One building, it’s exciting just thinking about it.”

Zhou Yan smiled and patted Jiang Mengfei on the shoulder, "Okay, go back to work."

The post-production work of "Time Traveler" has come to an end and should be completed in the next two days.

"Oh, by the way, Director Han just came and is probably in the projection room now." Jiang Mengfei then remembered to tell Zhou Yan that Han Sanping had arrived.

"He comes so early." Zhou Yan was a little surprised.

In the past few days, Han Sanping started asking Zhou Yan about the progress. When he called yesterday, he also said that he would come over today to take a look. However, Zhou Yan did not expect that Han Sanping would come so early, even before him.

"It can be seen that Director Han is very anxious."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, let's go up."

……

When we arrived at the screening room, Han Sanping was already watching a movie.

He had just arrived and the movie had just started.

Seeing Zhou Yan coming, Han Sanping smiled and said, "You came at the right time. Come watch the movie with me."

In fact, Han Sanping had seen the film before, but the sound track had not been added at that time, so it was equivalent to a silent film, and the feeling it looked was completely different.

Zhou Yan nodded, moved a chair, walked over and sat down next to Han Sanping.

"How's the review going?" Zhou Yan asked.

"No problem. There is one last procedure. The movie is scheduled to be released on December 20th. What do you think?" "I'm fine with it. It's up to you."

Han Sanping turned his head and looked at Zhou Yan. "We can't say that you should just listen to us. Your opinion is very important."

"I don't have much research on the main issue of release date."

"I'm worried that you have other things to do and can't leave. Didn't I hear you say last time that you would attend the Writers' Congress in mid-December?"

"Well, the Writers' Congress is on December 16th."

"Will the representative meeting last more than one day?"

"It's five days in total, and ends exactly on the 20th."

“Will that have any impact?”

Zhou Yan shook his head. "No, I just showed up in the first two days and attended the meeting. The election and change of leadership later have nothing to do with me, and I don't need to be there."

For the Writers' Congress, Zhou Yan and his colleagues are marginal figures, at most they are just mascots, and the serious change of leadership has nothing to do with them.

"In that case, let's set it for December 20th. I spoke to Mr. Xu on the phone last night, and we can start promoting it later. Mr. Xu wants to hold a premiere ceremony on that day."

"It's fine on my end, but you should ask the others for the time."

For the premiere ceremony, all the main creative staff must be invited to the scene, so it is still necessary to avoid conflicts with other people's schedules.

Han Sanping smiled and said, "Of course we have to ask, but their situation does not affect the result. Even if no one else has time to come, as long as you are there, it will be fine. After all, as long as you are there, it means that the director, screenwriter, male lead, and music director are all here. Isn't this enough?"

Zhou: Actually, what Han Sanping said is right. Even if other people don’t come to the premiere, it will be enough as long as he is there.

And if nothing unexpected happens, the leading actress, Joey Wong, will definitely have time to come.

The male and female protagonists and the director are all here, so there won't be any problems.

Although he was chatting with Zhou Yan, it did not delay Han Sanping from watching the movie. At this moment, the movie had been played for two and a half minutes, and the first music in the movie appeared, which was the background music for the dance party.

Han Sanping asked, "Is this your original work?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "All the music in this movie is original by me."

Zhou Yan had thought about sampling some other classic songs before, but after thinking about it, he decided to do it all by himself.

"Yeah, it's a pretty cheerful song."

Because it is the background song for the dance party, the style of the song is lively and dynamic.

This style did not have much appeal to Han Sanping, nor did it make him feel very surprised.

However, he was curious about the recording effect, because it sounded like a live recording, but as far as he knew, the song had not been recorded at the time of filming, so it was naturally impossible to be recorded live.

"How do you receive the radio here?" Han Sanping asked.

“The songs were recorded later, and the other sounds were recorded live.”

"Why do they look so similar to being recorded together? Did they use any special techniques?"

"It's just a mix of two tracks, nothing special."

"Really?" Han Sanping was a little surprised. "We used two tracks before, but we couldn't achieve such an effect."

If two audio tracks are used in parallel for live sound recording and post-recording, it may give people a sense of disconnection. This is the case with many domestic movies. The sound sounds strange and even feels out of sync.

Therefore, many directors, if they do not receive satisfactory sound on site, may record it separately and try to use only one audio track to avoid defects.

Of course, no matter how well the sound is recorded in post-production, there will still be some sense of fragmentation, but it is much better than mixing two audio tracks together.

Zhou Yan explained with a smile, "Our equipment is pretty good, and we really put a lot of effort into this part, so the result is pretty good. Of course, we spent a lot of money as well."

"No wonder they say it costs a lot of money in the later stages." Han Sanping said with emotion.

Compared with Zhou Yan's films, the money spent on post-production of other films from their studio was pitifully small.

There's nothing they can do about it. Their equipment is old and no matter how good their technology is, they can't do anything special.

The money spent on Zhou Yan's movie was really worth it, the pictures and sounds are completely on a different level from ordinary domestic films.

After watching the dance scene, Han Sanping couldn't help but sigh that Zhou Yan was really good at sound effects.

If this dance scene was shot in a domestic movie, the background music would probably be similar, but Zhou Yan's shot has a sense of layers.

The sound will change differently under different angles, and the changes are very smooth.

Following the sound, the audience will unconsciously focus their attention where the director wants them to.

In fact, this is not an equipment problem. On the one hand, it is because directors have different levels of research on sound, and on the other hand, it is because the difficulty of shooting is different.

If you want to achieve a sense of layering in the sound, you may have to conduct multiple tests, and one shot will take a lot of effort, which many directors cannot do.

Han Sanping also noticed that there were three songs in this dance party.

"Did you write three songs for this short segment?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Actually, there are not three songs. Basically, there are only these few that you have heard."

“Every song is just a snippet?”

"These three songs combined took less than two minutes to record."

"Is this troublesome?"

"It's not a big deal for me, but the singers are more troublesome. I found three singers to sing these three songs, and I asked them to come to Yanjing to record them."

"That is to say, even though they came all the way here, each person can only record for a little over half a minute on average."

"That's not the case. Some singers have more songs to come."

Han Sanping sighed, "It's just you. If it were someone else, it would be impossible to find so many singers."

The key point is that these are all European and American singers. Now in China, except Zhou Yan, no one else has such appeal.

"It's not that I don't give them money. It's easy work and they get paid." Zhou Yan said with a smile.

Han Sanping rolled his eyes and thought that Zhou Yan deserved a beating for what he said.

It’s not easy to come to China, but Zhou Yan actually said that his job was easy.

And as far as Han Sanping knew, Zhou Yan didn't give these singers much money.

After all, with the budget for the movie, only more than 2 million RMB was spent on music production.

The total cost of "Time Traveler" is 29 million RMB, and the cost of music production is 9%.

This ratio is already outrageous. Looking at the movies across the country, this is still the only one like Scorpion Shit.

But these two million RMB are not enough for the singers invited.

Not to mention anything else, these people will have to spend a lot of money just for their round-trip air tickets and food and accommodation after landing.

Apart from this money, Zhou Yan had very little money to pay those singers.

It can be said that those singers came here just for Zhou Yan.

For many singers, being able to sing Zhou Yan's songs is already a great pleasure. (End of this chapter)